Lydia Margaret Naillon
1858 - 1942

Father: Elijah Washington Naillon
Mother: Harriet Moore Naillon
Spouse &/or Father of Children: Reuben/Rubin Black*

RITES CONDUCTED FOR
MATRON OF SOUTH BOUNTIFUL

Funeral services for Lydia Margaret Naillon, 83, of South Bountiful, who died Saturday at her home of causes incident to age, were held Tuesday in South Bountiful ward chapel with Bishop Walter Moss officiating. Burial was in Bountiful cemetery, directed by the Union mortuary.

The deceased was born December 29, 1858 in Haywood County, North Carolina, a daughter of Elijah W. and Harriett Brown [Harriet Moore] Naillon. She was later married* to Reuben Black in Tennessee. The couple later separated.

She had resided at South Bountiful for the past four years and prior to that had lived in Salt Lake City for two years, 14 at Fillmore and two years at Ashurst, Arizona. She also resided seven years at Tuscon, Ariz., and a similar period at Kanab.

At Kanab she was active in L D S church work, serving in the M I A presidency and was a Relief society teacher.

Surviving are her son, Joseph R. Naillon of South Bountiful; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

-Source: Davis County Clipper, 28 Aug 1942; transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley.
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BOUNTIFUL, Aug. 24 -- Funeral services for Lydia Margaret Nailon [Naillon], 83, who died at the home of her son, Joseph R. Nailon [Naillon], in South Bountiful, Saturday, will be conducted Tuesday at three p. m. in the South Bountiful L. D. S. ward chapel by Walter Moss, bishop. Burial will be in the Bountiful cemetery.

Friends may call at the Union mortuary in Bountiful Monday until two-thirty p. m.

-Source: Rebekah Reed accessed and shared clipping/source, [Original: The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden, UT, 24 Aug 1942, p. 7]; transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley.
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*NOTE: Living and deceased descendants have insisted Lydia never married Reuben/Rubin Black, her obituary and DC say she did. No marriage record located. She and her children did not carry his name. Many theories as to which Reuben/Rubin Black he actually is.